Re:14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my car...
by bambax on Thursday February 16, 2012 @03:40AM
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> Here's a compositional secret. (..) Surprise me.
> Here's how surprise works. While holding my attention, you withold basic plot information. Feed it to me little by little. Make me try and figure out what's going on. Tease me in one direction. Throw in a false ending. Then turn it around and flip me over.
This is the secret of storytelling. Hell, it's the secret of art. Music, painting, writing, architecture, wine making... you name it.
Storytelling > story, BTW. That's why P&T can make new with the same old tricks. If you tell the same old story in a new way, it feels unique.
The surprise is not in the content, it's in the experience.
> Here's how surprise works. While holding my attention, you withold basic plot information. Feed it to me little by little. Make me try and figure out what's going on. Tease me in one direction. Throw in a false ending. Then turn it around and flip me over.
This is the secret of storytelling. Hell, it's the secret of art. Music, painting, writing, architecture, wine making... you name it.
Storytelling > story, BTW. That's why P&T can make new with the same old tricks. If you tell the same old story in a new way, it feels unique.
The surprise is not in the content, it's in the experience.